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Sunday, July 30, 2017

I've been thinking tonight, okay so technically this morning about the art of communication, and how it's advanced in the new digital age, or rather how it has declined.......especially on social media.......we don't talk to each other, we text, when we do respond to some one on Facebook we use an emoji.....or an lol, omg or wtf........the great majority of "communication" is with memes.........very little is original writing.....we tell ourselves that we are connecting with people......but are we really.....
awhile back after an extended family meal I was sitting in a living room with a bunch of nieces and great nieces, the only sound was texting on cellphones.....at one point one of my nieces said to her daughter, "We're in the same room, 6 feet apart, talk to me, don't text me".........true story.....
I'm not sure that I completely understand what's going on, have we, that is the modern generation lost the ability to communicate by the spoken or written word, or is it the lack of original thought, okay I grant you that maybe there is no such think as original thought......but we've or at least some of us have lost the ability to express what we believe, what we feel in our own words......to express our feelings in our own way, without the use of silly little computer generated graphics...... Die Emojis Die.......

Monday, July 24, 2017

There is a significant difference between here on my blog and Facebook.....this blog is for me.......i really don't give a fart in a wind storm if anyone actually reads it..........sure it's nice to see the hit meter climb.........but by in large it's for me........
Facebook on the other hand is mostly for communication, for sharing....the weird thing is there are things I share that I think should draw at least some interest and you can hear the crickets singing out my window..........

Friday, July 21, 2017

A video showed up on my recommended on YouTube ..........it was of a flash mob playing an except, from Holst's Planets, and I've spent the last couple of days wondering around YouTube looking for other sites, but this is my fav [link]

Sunday, July 16, 2017

I've been a tad unwell over the last week or so, what we used to call when I was a kid being "under the weather"...........but have felt much better the last couple of days......it's been hot and humid the last week plus, and as I get older I don't react to that weather pattern so well..........

Wednesday, July 5, 2017

I have had one of those days today........awoke this morning and my legs......what could I say about my legs, Well the best I could say is they reached from my crotch to the ground......and were shaky even doing that.......by mid afternoon.........felt a lot better......needed to walk....needed to pick up my blood pressure meds........
By the time I got back my legs felt worse then when I left.......80+*F....and very high humility.....but the thing that really got me going was the price of the meds jump almost 40%.......now I'm on a fixed income......and I can absorb the increase.......at least for now but?........

Saturday, July 1, 2017

How did we get to this point in the good old US of A..........it seems that we have become a nation of polar opposites, we have become a nation with many and sundry view points, which seem to be diametrically apposed.......and we spend most of our time and effort supporting our own views and criticizing those who believe views to which we are opposed.....but the result is nothing changes.....just same old......same old....
I learned a long time ago, and I've been around long enough to be an expert on this subject.....you never get everything you want.......and if you do get it......It may not be exactly what you wanted or hoped for in the first place......
Let's take a step back............I know that the word compromise, has become a four letter word, I get that.......but to ultimately to get what you want, sometimes you have to give a little to get a little.......

About Me

i am who i am. i am a singularly individual personality...been that way for 70 years and i'm not about to start changing now....who really doesn't give a "fart in a wind storm" if you like me or what i write,

about this blog

at one time i had this blog, but decided to spin off a links blog and a poetry blog years ago ( you can find links below).........but what's left is a hodge podge of what doesn't fit in the other two....sometimes silly, sometime mundane, some times serious....so in the words of an old TV series:

"You have entered the Twilight Zone".

[Please Note: only the poetry blog still exist........so this has become a bit of more of a catch all then before......but some is now on my FB site........link is below ]

Origins

When I started blogging I needed a title for the blog, and got to thinking about an old TV sitcom "Car 54 where are you", and since I was 54 at the time, and my "good" friend BP had hung me with the nick troll....Troll54 where are you was born.......he once had commented that I was the most even temper and least bigoted person he had ever met........by that he meant, I was always in a bad mood and hated everybody.......therefore I was a troll..........after beating the carp out of him, i decided that he was probably right, the beat-down was verbal, not physical, dang the kid was 8" taller then me, I may be ornery but I ain't stupid

About the same time as the blog began, I found a game called "Blogshares" ....was in beta at the time....and now rests where internet games go when they die.......I was there for the beta......and there for its' passing.......but having looked around and viewing the players' forum.......I decide I need a persona....and to avoid the stigma of "troll", out of my warped mind the "Madtrollie" was born.....complete with a bridge and an extreme hatred of noobs.......well that developed over time.....but privately.....always sent gifts.....advice.......and at times involved them in my nefarious schemes......except as the writer of this warped blog...the Madtrollie has become more or less benign in his old age.......but beware when least expected.......

Avatars

For many years online I lived behind avatars when ever a picture was asked for, first one was a budgie on a skateboard, then there was the cat with a yamaka, then it was the parrot with a yamaka and a tallith......you can still see him wandering around this blog looking for matzah.........whether I finally came to the conclusion that at least I should show my true-self, or I lost an argument with that orthodox parrot, or the simple fact that this 70 year old man finally figured out how to use the camera that is embedded in my desktop... but the bottom line is I've decided not to hid behind avatars no more...just a hoodie and a pair of shades